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Ouida Quotes about Lying

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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

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Lying, Hypocrisy, Religion
Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

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Lying, Passion, Long
Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.383, Ouida

Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

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Lying, Butterfly, Gay
Ouida (2016). “Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes”, p.24, Ouida

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